
A History of my Archive in 10 Objects. No.1: Sketch from the back garden of Butlers Lane, 1976
For the first in the Museum of My Archive in 10 Objects (apologies to Neil MacGregor and the British Museum) I bring you a sketch of our house, drawn just before my 17th birthday from our back garden during the sweltering summer of 1976. We lived in Butlers Lane, Sutton Coldfield from 1970 until the end of 1977, this was the house where I grew from child to teenager. It was a corner house and significantly bigger than any of our previous (and subsequent!) homes. My parents